Paper-filing device



D. J. KAVANAGH.

PAPER FILING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.29.19I8.

1 ,330,875 Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

DUDLEY J'. KAVANAGH, 0F BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

PAPER FILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

Application filed January 29, 1918. Serial No. 214,336.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUDLEY J. KAVANAGH, a citizen of the United Statesof America, and resident of Bay City, in the county of Bay and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPaper-Filing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to file cases and particularly to a file casehaving plaits or folds, the folded portions or some of them beingpunctured or perforated for the re ception of eyelets or the like,whereby papers are held in the case, although the said invention mayalso be employed as a container to be placed in a file case.

An object of this invention is to provide a collapsible file case orextensible file case; that is to say, the file case is compact and thefolds thereof allowed to be collapsed when not in use, whereas the casemay be extended or distended for increasing its capacity as the papersare filed and accumulate.

A further object of this invention is to prevent the loss of papers byproducing a file in which the papers can be bound and secured, eithertemporarily or permanently as will presently appear.

with the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists inthe details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination ofparts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein likecharacters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in whichFigure 1 illustrates a view in perspective of a file case embodying theinvention;

Fig. 2 illustrates a sectional view of a fragment of the file showingthe manner of using the file;

Fig. 3 illustrates a sectional view of a modified construction showingfasteners applied to the case; and

Fig. 4 illustrates a plan view of a fragment of a case showing thetemporary attachment.

In these drawings 5 denotes the top of the container or jacket, 6 thebottom thereof, and 7 a wall having a fold or crease 8 so that oneportion of the wall will move with relation to the other to increase ordiminish the height of the wall according to the papers contained withinthe jacket or receptacle.

The wall or end 9 is accordion plaited with the upper layers or folds 10provided with perforations or holes 11 for the reception of eyeletswhereas the lower fold 12 is preferably plain, although, as willpresently appear, these lower folds may have slots in them.

In the construction of the container, relatively stifi papers or clothor cloth reinforced paper may be employed and any number of folds orplaits may be provided and preferably in use, papers to be filed areplaced in an unfolded state with their upper ed es in the folds of theaccordion plaited wal and fastened by staples or eyelets 13 which passthrough the apertures 11. The apertures 11 are intended to receiveeyelets or fastenings by which papers may be secured in place, and thesefastenings or eyelets may be inserted in the apertures and through thepapers to be filed.

If desired, the papers thus placed in the file or jacket may be placedin a file, envelop or container of known construction, or if desired, aflap could be extended under the back and around the open side and overthe top of the receptacle or file, and thus the device could be made acomplete closure for protecting papers which it contains.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, there is a plurality offolds or plaits such as 14 and means for locking papers in the holdertemporarily may be provided instead of supplying the fastening which ise1n bodied in Fig. 2. This modification consists of the jacket or holderof the construction heretofore described, but in addition to the holes11 on the upper fold to apply the fastenings, the papers are fastened tothe lower folds 15 by means of a fastener having a button 16 which isfirst fastened to the top of the paper to be filed, and then inserted inthe slot 17 cut with a die or the like in the lower fold, thus provisionmay be made for changing the papers or adding to them by using thetemporary fastenings and afterward the fastenings may be employed whichpass through the papers and other apertures 11.

The slotted portion has oppositely recessed edges 18 and 19 forming aclearance for receiving heads of paper fastening devices 16 the paperbeing held thereby being identified by the reference numeral 20,

After the heads of the paper fasteners are inserted in the recessedportions of the slotted portions of the file, they are slidlongitudinally of the slot in order that said heads may not disengage.

The folded file has a series of apertures a through Which a securingdevice 18 is threaded, Which securing device may be elastic or otherflexible elements and is intended to prevent flaring ofthe file,notwithstanding it may contain a number of papers.

1. In a paper filing device, a receptacle having one end folded and theopposite end provided with accordion plaits, the upper fold of eachplait being apertured for the reception of fasteners by which papers areheld in the holder.

2. In a paper filing device, a receptacle having an accordion plaitedWall at one edge and a folded Wall at the opposite edge, one of saidfolds of the plaits being slotted, and fastenings adapted to be attachedto papers to be filed and inserted in said slots.

3. In a paper filing device, a receptacle having on accordion plaitedWall at one end, the upper folds being apertured for the reception oftemporary paper fasteners and the lower folds being slotted and recessedto receive the heads of paper fasteners, the shanks of the paperfasteners being slidable in the slots.

DUDLEY J. KAVANAGH

